4-letter words containing s, o
- osta — Optical Storage Technology Association
- otis — Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- otsu — a city in S Honshu, Japan, on Lake Biwa.
- ouds — Plural form of oud.
- ouns — (archaic, dialectal) Wounds, especially the wounds of Christ on the cross.
- ours — (used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- ouse — Also called Great Ouse. a river in E England, flowing NE to the Wash. 160 miles (260 km) long.
- oust — to expel or remove from a place or position occupied: The bouncer ousted the drunk; to oust the prime minister in the next election.
- outs — away from, or not in, the normal or usual place, position, state, etc.: out of alphabetical order; to go out to dinner.
- owse — ox.
- oxes — the adult castrated male of the genus Bos, used chiefly as a draft animal.
- oxus — Amu Darya.
- oyes — a cry of “oyez.”.
- pcos — polycystic ovary syndrome
- pcso — Police Community Support Officer
- peso — a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- piso — (in the Philippines) a peso
- pons — Also called pons Varolii. a band of nerve fibers in the brain connecting the lobes of the midbrain, medulla, and cerebrum.
- poos — excrement.
- pops — of or relating to popular songs: pop music; pop singers.
- pose — a movement in which the dancer steps, in any desired position, from one foot to the other with a straight knee onto the flat foot, demi-pointe, or pointe.
- posh — sumptuously furnished or appointed; luxurious: a posh apartment.
- poss — to wash (clothes) by agitating them with a long rod, pole, etc
- post — power-on self-test
- posy — a flower, nosegay, or bouquet.
- pots — Plain Old Telephone Service
- pros — arguments or votes in favour of a proposal or motion
- psro — Professional Standards Review Organization: a group of doctors and healthcare professionals monitoring the quality of medical care that is paid for by the federal government in a particular geographical area
- qdos — (operating system) The Sinclair QL's proprietary operating system. The origin of the name is uncertain (a weak pun on kudos, perhaps, as Unix was on Multics). There was another OS around from the birth of personal computers called Q.D.O.S. - Quick And Dirty Operating System. QDOS might also stand for QL Data/Disk/Drive/Device Operating System. QDOS did the usual OS sorts of things, as well as multitasking. It was unusual in several ways. It treated all devices (serial ports, mouse ports, screen, microdrive, disk drive, keyboard, etc.) uniformly, so you could print a text file direct to disk or save a binary to the screen for example. Also logical channels could be assigned to particular physical devices. Output directed to a channel would go to the appropriate in/output. This also meant you could have many windows on screen (the QL booted up from internal ROMs with 3 windows - command line, output and program listing) all independent to some extent. Channels could be redirected without affecting the way the process sent or received the data.
- quos — quoth.
- rdos — Realtime Disk Operating System
- rosa — Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- rose — Remote Operations Service Element
- ross — Betsy Griscom [gris-kuh m] /ˈgrɪs kəm/ (Show IPA), 1752–1836, maker of the first U.S. flag.
- rosy — pink or pinkish-red; roseate.
- rous — (Francis) Peyton, 1879–1970, U.S. pathologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1966.
- rsno — Royal Scottish National Orchestra
- rtos — Real-Time Operating System
- saco — a city in SW Maine.
- sago — a starchy foodstuff derived from the soft interior of the trunk of various palms and cycads, used in making puddings.
- samo — died a.d. 658, first ruler of the Slavs 623–658.
- sato — Eisaku [ey-sah-koo;; Japanese ey-sah-koo] /eɪˈsɑ ku;; Japanese ˈeɪ sɑˌku/ (Show IPA), 1901–75, Japanese political leader: prime minister 1964–72; Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- scog — to shelter
- scop — an Old English bard or poet.
- scot — a native or inhabitant of Scotland.
- scow — any of various vessels having a flat-bottomed rectangular hull with sloping ends, built in various sizes with or without means of propulsion, as barges, punts, rowboats, or sailboats.
- seco — (of wine) dry
- sego — sego lily.
- shmo — schmo.
- shoa — a former kingdom in E Africa: now a province of Ethiopia. 25,290 sq. mi. (65,501 sq. km). Capital: Addis Ababa.